AE_LIVE is pretty underrated, you'd think it'd be just because of the time issue but the only people listening to it are going to be crazy obsessives so, yeah, I'll go with it, underrated. It's quite a bit more atmospheric (but not ambient) than their usual releases, while also being very heavy on the low end comparably, because, well, live music, some bodies is going to being dancing, presumably. this is AE's perverse idea of club music. Immediately tonal and atonal 'round the edges. and channel shifting heavy at times. playing to/with the room. It's kind of weird they only released the first four initially, as the latter five are much better, in some cases significantly better. Nagano thru Dour might be my favorite music of theirs. I think it was Utrecht is pretty weak except the last ten minutes or so. You'll obviously hear some repeated bits but the parameters are usually tweaked and they'll rearrange elements to shift from one music segment to another. The sequencing and parameter tweaking/"knob twiddling" seems to be spontaneous/improvisational.

XxXApathy420XxX on Jun 15 2018, 07:59:01 AM wrote:Sophie's album. Talk about overhyped. Had some great moments with heavy industrial beats but some of the vocals placed in there didn't fit at all. Immaterial was top 40 bullshit.

listened to it too yesterday, kind of interesting but this kind of music could so much better